Face Uncertain Past Poem by Tom Billsborough

New Dawn, unwritten page,
The future sparkles on the crests of waves.
And sage decisions will be taken.
For confidence is all!
For now your soul will shape its options
And words flow in conclusive tides,
Driven by faith in your creative function.
Oh, Man, how many stood
Upon this very shore
Bathing too in the blinding light
And yet forgot
The elongated shadows
Hidden from their sight.
Look back and face uncertain past
With its reversals,
Which memory unravels
With its malicious pleasure;
Assumptive errors confidently made
Which litter past endeavours
As flotsam piled behind you on the shore!